Leo Postman

Leo Joseph Postman (June 7, 1918 – April 22, 2004) was a Russian-born American psychologist known for his research on human memory.

Leo Postman
Born	Leo Joseph Postman (1918-06-07)June 7, 1918 St. Petersburg, Russia
Died	April 22, 2004(2004-04-22) (aged 85) Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
Education	City College of New York Harvard University
Known for	Human memory
Spouse	Dorothy Lerman Postman
Awards	Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1974)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	The time-error in auditory perception  (1946)
Doctoral students	Marcia K. Johnson[1] David McNeill

Career

He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1950 to his retirement in 1987. In 1961, he founded Berkeley's Institute of Human Learning, which later became the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association, as well as the president of the Western Psychological Association in 1968.

In 1974, he was awarded the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.^[2]

Death and legacy

He died of heart failure at his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts on April 22, 2004. His 2005 obituary in American Psychologist described him as "one of the most prolific psychologists of the last century".^[3]

See also

• Gordon Allport – Postman's teacher